Nigeria must work together with its people to help keep the peace in the Niger Delta.

Offshore oil is not just a risk to the environment – if the world gets serious about mitigating climate change, these resources risk becoming stranded assets.
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June 1, 2015

Big oil companies are moving to exploit new resources such as the Arctic or the Great Australian Bight. But are they worth the risk?

The MV Shen Neng I spills oil onto the Great Barrier Reef in 2010. Large accidents are rare, but there is still very little monitoring of long-term chronic damage from shipping.
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May 24, 2015

Port traffic near the Great Barrier Reef will more than double by 2025, as coal and other exports grow. While major incidents are rare, the chronic toll on the reef itself still remains largely unknown.

Uncertainty over seafood safety caused anxiety in coastal communities in the wake of the spill.
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April 20, 2015

If anything good is to come from the devastation caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and Australia’s Montara oil and gas leak the year before, it is that we learn from our mistakes…